Lunch break and time to reflect. Overall a good morning one or two issues that need to be addressed – hopefully I’ll be able to do that this afternoon.
Enjoying a delicious ?? Subway and then back to the grindstone .
Simon Marchini
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A quick 10 minute sketch to start the warmup process for today’s course … What will be in store for me today?
Simon Marchini
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I know I’m on a bit of a wind turbine thing at the moment but this video give you some idea the scale of these things.
This is my image for today.
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or is it this one? Not sure.
I have no answer to this question when it comes to wind turbines. They have a stark beauty that we are not supposed to admire but I’ll let you into a guilty secret – I do. There I’ve said it – I like wind turbines – but only the really big ones which I feel are proportionally are the most pleasing. I’m sure if I lived next to them I might have a different view but actually I don’t think I would.
Where I live I am surrounded by wind turbines – not on the scale of the southern Scottish hills on the way into Glasgow but within a 15 Km radius of me there must be 10 or 12 turbines – any many of these are the really big ones – which leads me to the Four Horseman of Apocalypse at Gilmorton – my name for the giants that seem to straddle the hills just to the south of me. They seem to dominate the whole of the south of the county slowly winding their lives away yet when you are close to them you loose all sense of their scale. So just how do you make an image of such things?
The two examples here I think demonstrates the point. The images I made this morning out at Gilmorton where captured in very flat and unsympathetic light. Compare this to the image I captured one VERY cold late autumn evening on Redcar beach. The light was crisp and a live and some how the monsters don’t seem that bad. It also helps that the beasts are about a mile out to see but this again shows one of the big problems with all this – is a sense of scale really important. Oh I just don’t know.
So the point of all this is? I guess I just have to work the problem until I come with some form of a solution – that is assuming that there is a solution and it is not a kobayashi maru.
Slam pendulum
Doodling and sketching a female face based on the standard proportions … Not sure why?
Simon Marchini
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At the start of the year I had an idea – I would run a project for the 12 months following my birthday. I had no idea what the project would be about but it would run for 12 months. After a couple of months of scratching my head and realising this whole idea was a lot more complicated than I thought I settled on a very simple approach. For the next 12 months I would produce at least one digital image on each of the days of the 12 months. By the end of it I should have at least 365 images. I have no idea where the project will take me and I guess if nothing else it will document, in some strange way, 12 months of my life for posterity. Lets just see how many images I do produce and how many days I miss.
So here are the images I have created on day one – each one produced with my iPhone and a combination of photo apps.
Let the Games Begin.
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